by Philip Roth · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499223105
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«Sabbaths Theater» is the novel by Philip Roth, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch in paperback (624 pages, in German).
Mickey Sabbath, a former Broadway puppeteer, watches his life fall apart when his lover dies and his arthritic fingers no longer respond. With death on the horizon, he recalls his past in a dizzying review: a succession of erotic episodes, defeats and supposed triumphs that his unbridled imagination recreates to the extreme.
German edition translated by Werner Schmitz; original title: Sabbath's Theater (1995), winner of the National Book Award. No. 22310 in the rororo collection.
For readers of literary fiction who do not shy away from a morally ambiguous protagonist, with an uncompromising look at desire, old age and death.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
